Quotes About Wisdom

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise

Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.

Nijedna tu?a sre?a nije bez pomalo sre?e i za nas druge. Zato je jedna velika mudrost od tu?e sre?e praviti sre?u i za sebe.

count no man happy until he be dead.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does.

If we obey the great laws, we shall be happy.